aggiehawg said:
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This is a clown thread and anyone defending her is a clown.
Defending her is not the same as saying Michael Byrd took a bad shot.
Let me ask you this: Did Derek Chauvin "murder" George Floyd?
In regards to whether he took a bad shot, I think you have to know exactly what scenario he felt he was facing at the time. I see a dozen posts in the thread about how "security guards letting people in" and "there was no real uprising", but I don't believe there is anything concrete that tells you what he was seeing/feeling/thinking at that time in his position.
He's tasked with security. The chambers are being evacuated and the entry way is barricaded. This is something that has
never happened before. It may not have turned out to be much of any kind of threat, but acting flippantly about how he should have known is silly. You are pointing a gun at people behind a barricade telling them to stay back and they break a window and start climbing in it.
If that had been a real threat and he just let them continue on in (like many people say he should have), then all of you would be wanting him hung up for treason or the like.
From what I read he got her in the shoulder, but ultimately in that situation with what he perceived to be a significant threat in a window - the fact that he only took the one shot tells shows me he wasn't over-doing things.
Regarding Chauvin/Floyd -- IMO the scenarios are wholly different in that based on what Chauvin was seeing it wasn't reasonable to think Floyd posed a significant threat that Chauvin couldn't handle without a large degree of force. Floyd needed to be detained, and likely needed to be detained somewhat physically, but not with the degree of force and/or carelessness that Chauvin used. But I'm certainly not in the camp that Floyd was some innocent subject... he's very much of a "play stupid games..." candidate as well.
But that scenario is different than what the capital officer faced. Yes, the media has completely overblown the "insurrection", but that doesn't somehow mean that in the moment that it was obvious to everyone it was a dog and pony show with no significant threat. That entryway got barricaded for a reason. They were being evacuated for a reason. And that reason was at least multiple higher ups felt that this was potentially a threat.
So yes, in that officer's position with a threat of a large group of people forcing their way into a barricaded building where people are being evacuated firing one shot at someone that is not heeding any warnings from an officer and continuing to force their way into a restricted government building where people are feeling threatened?
Yeah, I got no problem with him taking that shot and truly believe anyone who tries to question him in that scenario is either a clown, far too wrapped up in his "team", or both.